The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

Feels so good to be quoted

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Look within - there is no end!

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Change has come to America.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.